Emby for Android TV

2.1.23g

Emby Media

3.74

706 reviews

1,000,000+
Downloads

Free

The Emby app for Android TV devices

3.74 · 706 reviews · 1,000,000+ downloads

Emby for Android TV unifies your personal videos, music, and photos into a single streaming hub for Android TV. It delivers on-the-fly transcoding, metadata-rich library organization, and easy sharing, with Live TV and DVR support via Emby Premiere. It also holds regional rankings in MEDIA_VIDEO across ES (#111), SE (#124), and DK (#145) and has a solid rating from 681 users, with 1,000,000+ total and 11K in the last 30 days.

Pros & Cons

Free to use with up to five TV devices per Emby Server
Unified personal media across videos, music, and photos with rich metadata and artwork
On-the-fly transcoding for broad device compatibility
Parental controls and family management features

Live TV and DVR require Emby Premiere subscription
Requires setting up the Free Emby Server (install via emby.media) to use
Some features may require installed cloud providers or external services

About Emby for Android TV

Emby for Android TV is a video players & editors app developed by Emby Media.

Download Statistics

Emby for Android TV has been downloaded 1.1 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 11 thousand times. It is ranked in the top 100 video players & editors apps.

User Ratings

Emby for Android TV is rated 3.74 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 710 ratings.

App Information

Emby for Android TV is FREE to download. The APK download size is 49.83 MB. The latest version available is 2.1.23g. The last update was on December 7, 2024.

Technical Requirements

Emby for Android TV requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play April 2015.

Description

Bringing all of your personal media together into one place has never been easier! Emby unites your personal videos, music, and photos and streams them to all your devices.

More data about Emby for Android TV

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	1.1 million
Recent downloads	11 thousand
Rating	3.74 based on 710 ratings
Ranking	Highly ranked
Version	2.1.23g
APK size	49.8 MB
Number of libraries	33
Designed for Android	5.0+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Google Play Rating history and histogram

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Downloads over time

Emby for Android TV has been downloaded 1.1 million times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 370 downloads per day.

Changelog of Emby for Android TV

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Developer information for Emby Media

Emby Media

billingsupport@emby.media

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Comments on Emby for Android TV for Android

★★★★★ Krys T · Mar 16, 2022

When I am scrolling on my phone it won't let me scroll continuously. It jumps back to the first collection of movies on my screen. Is there a reason why ? Woops. Never mind. Lol I was using this one on my phone. I installed the Emby for android just now. Works great. Lol 😆 #woops

★★★★☆ Brandon Bronaugh · Feb 28, 2023

I was using jellyfin, and it was great, but I had some technical issues, and simply didn't have time to troubleshoot. I don't like some aspects of plex. Emby has been great! I love that you can restrict content per user based on a whitelist of tags. That means I can tag the kids content and only that will show up on their profile. Jellyfin can only blacklist tags, so I have to tag all the non-kids content, and anything I miss shows on their profile. Emby can also blacklist tags if you want.

★★★★★ cwills75 · Aug 11, 2021

As a long-time Plex server/app user who has recently switched to Emby, their software works great. I made the switch once they supported hardware accelerated HDR color mapping since many of my clients are not UHD, and need conversion. Emby puts MY MEDIA first unlike Plex, which shoves their online content in your face every chance they get, all the while ignoring issues from paying users. Recently, Emby wasn't showing movie/TV trailers on my Nvidia Shield TV 2019 model. I googled it, found a thread where someone posted the issue, where the Emby devs saw it, responded and fixed it promptly, and it's now working. I'm running the server on Unraid in a docker with clients running on everything from web browsers, android and ios phones, and android/ios based dedicated streaming clients, and it just works. Bravo!!!

★★☆☆☆ Zizoos Burner · Mar 20, 2025

Really disappointing. Envy have now removed the option to unlock the app. So now I just get told to contact the envy server owner, instead of being able to pay to unlock the app playback nag screen. As I have no way to contact the owner, the fact that emby have removed this option REALLY SUCKS. Now I can't have playback on my device, so it's completely useless

★★☆☆☆ Wes White · Jul 25, 2021

It does not work with the trailers feature The regular app does unfortunately the regular app is not available on my Android TV

★☆☆☆☆ Phil Liggett · Jul 24, 2021

Purchased to unlock and try to watch a movie on my Nvidia shield, and it tells me that I need to unlock. I click unlock, and it gives me an error stating that I already own this and will not unlock to allow me to watch a movie. Tried to get a refund, but there is no refund option. I just lost my money for something that does not work with no way to get it back. What a waste!

★☆☆☆☆ Necrotizing Fasciitis · Jul 19, 2021

Why would I want to pay for this to stream my own stuff? This isn't Netflix, it's my server. I'll just use Jellyfin instead. Player is bad anyway.

Google Play Rankings for Emby for Android TV

Top rankings

Rank	Country	Category	List
104	Denmark	Video Players & Editors	Top Free
170	Czech Republic	Video Players & Editors	Top Free
173	Spain	Video Players & Editors	Top Free
85	Sweden	Video Players & Editors	Top Grossing
157	Netherlands	Video Players & Editors	Top Grossing

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Technologies used by Emby for Android TV

Emby for Android TV is requesting 8 permissions and is using 33 libraries.

Permissions

Development tools

test access to protected storage

Network communication

view network connections, full network access, Google Play billing service

Hardware controls

record audio

Extra

com.android.providers.tv.permission.READ_EPG_DATA, com.android.providers.tv.permission.WRITE_EPG_DATA, tv.emby.embyatv.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Ad network libraries

None found

Social libraries

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Development tools

Android Jetpack core

Android Architecture Components

Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable Android Jetpack Annotations Android Library Icon

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Android Jetpack Widgets Android Jetpack AppCompat Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack AppCompat AndroidX Activity Android Library Icon

AndroidX Activity Android Activity Saved State Android Library Icon

Android Activity Saved State AndroidX Loader Android Library Icon

AndroidX Loader Android Jetpack Media Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack Media

Android Transition Support Library Kotlin Android Library Icon

Kotlin

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Android Support VectorDrawable

AndroidX Legacy: Support Library core utils AndroidX Cursor Adapter Android Library Icon

AndroidX Cursor Adapter

AndroidX Local Broadcast Manager

Android Support Library Print Google gson Android Library Icon

Google gson

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AndroidX Legacy: Support Library core UI

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Okio

JetBrains Annotations IntelliJ IDEA Android Library Icon

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Glide

AndroidX ExifInterface Google Guava Android Library Icon

Google Guava Volley Android Library Icon

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AndroidX Palette Android YouTube Player Android Library Icon

Android YouTube Player Java-WebSocket Android Library Icon

Java-WebSocket

Trust & Safety: Permissions include: android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, android.permission.INTERNET, android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO, com.android.providers.tv.permission.READ_EPG_DATA, com.android.providers.tv.permission.WRITE_EPG_DATA, com.android.vending.BILLING, tv.emby.embyatv.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION. The app is Free to install and uses in-app billing for Premiere; these permissions are typical for media streaming apps.

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